(Apologies for multiple postings.)
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS:
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CiE 2021: Connecting with computability
5 - 9 July 2021
website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1]
**Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual
conference.**
CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association
Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE)
series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific
program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all
aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as
the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and
other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and
physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the
Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2].
CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a
virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites
active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually
by Ghent University.
Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006),
Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010),
Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest
(2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and
virtually in Salerno (2020)
PLENARY SPEAKERS
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*
Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway)
*
Markus Lohrey (Universität Siegen. Germany)
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Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US)
*
Joan Rand Moschovakis (UCLA, US)
*
Joël Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany)
*
Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Université Paris Diderot, France)
*
Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan)
*
Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada)
SPECIAL SESSIONS
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/Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/
Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
_/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_
Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and
Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin)
Speakers: Marat Faizrakhmanov (Kazan Federal University), Andrea Sorbi
(University of Siena), Liang Yu (Nanjing University), Ning Zhong
(University of Cincinnati)
_/Computational geometry/_
Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Maarten Löffler
(Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Speakers: Wolfgang Mulzer (Free University Berlin)_, _Tillmann Miltzow
(Utrecht University),
Esther Ezra (Bar-Ilan University), Karl Bringmann (Saarland University)
/Computational Pangenomics/
Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Speakers: Francesca Ciccarelli (King's College London, UK), Benedict
Paten (University of California Santa Cruz, USA), Brona Brejova
(Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia),
Rayan Chikhi (Pasteur Institute, France)
_/Proof theory and computation/_
David Fernández Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo
Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium)
Speakers: Lorenzo Carlucci (University of Rome I "La Sapienza"),
Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Yue
Yang (National university of Singapore), Leszek Kolodziejczyk
(University of Warsaw)
_/Quantum computation and information/_
Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank
Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium)
WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY
=========================
The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in
setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a
Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring
program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in
Computability, see:
https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
[3]
IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for article registration (abstract submission): January 17,
2021
Deadline for article submission: February 5, 2021
Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2021
Final versions due: April 27, 2021
Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 1, 2021
The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent
a few days after submission.
ORGANIZED BY:
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Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University
Organizing Committee:
David Fernández-Duque, chair (Ghent University)
Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University)
David Belanger (Ghent University)
Ana Borges (University of Barcelona)
Liesbeth De Mol (University of Lille)
Andreas Debrouwere (Ghent University)
Lorenz Demey (Catholic University of Leuven)
Eduardo Hermo-Reyes (University of Barcelona)
Christian Michaux (University of Mons)
Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University)
Pawel Pawlowski (Ghent University)
Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University)
Peter Verdée (Catholic University of Louvain)
Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University)
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
=========================
The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and
non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for
presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers
building bridges between different parts of the research community are
particularly welcome.
Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in
PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [4]) and
should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a
possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional
material.
Authors should submit their papers electronically using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021 [5]
Abstracts should be submitted by January 17th 2021, followed by the full
papers to be submitted by February 5 2021. Each submitted paper will be
peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance
for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is
required to register for the conference and should plan to present the
paper.
The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published with LNCS, Springer Verlag.
INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS:
=========================
Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the
formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will
host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly
before the conference and inform the participants about current research
and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for
informal presentations is May 1st, 2021.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)
Christel Baier (TU Dresden)
Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Paris-Est)
Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University)
David Bélanger (Ghent University)
Joel Day (Loughborough University)
Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Université de Lille, PC co-chair)
Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS)
Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans)
David Fernández-Duque (Ghent University)
Zuzana Haniková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA)
Assia Mahboubi (INRIA)
Florin Manea (University of Göttingen)
Irène Marcovici (Université de Lorraine)
Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan)
Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova)
Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan)
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Università di Torino)
Paul Schafer (University of Leeds)
Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST)
Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University)
Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2)
Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University)
Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore)
Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Sergey Verlan (Université Paris Est - Créteil Val de Marne)
Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair)
Damien Woods (Maynooth University)
Links:
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[1] http://www.cie2021.ugent.be/
[2] https://www.acie.eu/
[3]
https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
[4] ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
[5] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021
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Call for Workshop Proposals
FSCD 2021 - Extension 20th December 2020 -
https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021
Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021
--------------------------------------------------------------
FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference
on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the
Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its
satellite workshops will be held online.
We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite
events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation,
deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to
tools and applications.
Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July,
before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected
that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to
participants of parallel events.
PROPOSALS
--------------------
Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via
EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track)
Each proposal should consist of the following two parts.
1) A description part including:
- a short scientific justification of the proposed topic,
Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to
the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops
(if relevant);
- a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website
and publicity material.
2) An organisational part including:
- contact information for the workshop organisers;
- name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling
Committee member (*);
- estimate of the number of workshop participants;
- proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials,
demo sessions, etc.)
- potential invited speakers;
- procedures for selecting papers and participants;
- tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of
acceptance;
- plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue);
- duration (which may vary from one day to two days);
- preferred period (pre, or post main conference);
- any other special requirements.
(*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the
organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a
scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating
superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will
require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and
invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined
so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this
when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal.
The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of
accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop
Chairs and availability of space and facilities.
The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and
maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing
and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise
their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal
pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any
post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to
workshops, depending on the number of participants.
The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on
the main conference website; integration of the event's programme
into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement
of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be
provided by the FSCD organising committee.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission of workshop proposals: 20 December, 2020 - Extended -
Notification of success of proposals: 30 December, 2020
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Best regards,
Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon
FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs
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Second Call for Workshop Proposals
FSCD 2021
https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Main Conference: 19-22 July 2021
Workshops: 17-18 and 23-24 July 2021
--------------------------------------------------------------
FSCD 2021 will be the sixth edition of the International Conference
on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction. Due to the
Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its
satellite workshops will be held online.
We invite proposals for workshops, tutorials or other satellite
events, on any topic related to formal structures in computation,
deduction and automated reasoning, from theoretical foundations to
tools and applications.
Satellite events will take place online on the 17-18 and 23-24 July,
before and after the main conference (19-22 July). It is expected
that satellite events would run for 1 or 2 days, and be open to
participants of parallel events.
PROPOSALS
--------------------
Proposals must be limited to three pages and should be submitted via
EasyChair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021 (Workshops track)
Each proposal should consist of the following two parts.
1) A description part including:
- a short scientific justification of the proposed topic,
Its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to
the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops
(if relevant);
- a brief description (up to 120 words) of the event for the website
and publicity material.
2) An organisational part including:
- contact information for the workshop organisers;
- name of the organiser in the role of FSCD Workshops Scheduling
Committee member (*);
- estimate of the number of workshop participants;
- proposed format and agenda (e.g. paper presentations, tutorials,
demo sessions, etc.)
- potential invited speakers;
- procedures for selecting papers and participants;
- tentative schedule for paper submission and notification of
acceptance;
- plans for dissemination, if any (e.g. a journal special issue);
- duration (which may vary from one day to two days);
- preferred period (pre, or post main conference);
- any other special requirements.
(*) The FSCD Workshops Scheduling Committee will include one of the
organisers of each accepted workshop and have the role to concoct a
scientifically coherent program of all workshops mitigating
superpositions of connected talks. This organisational effort will
require that each workshop finalise their selection of talks and
invited speakers within a common pertinent deadline to be defined
so that possible overlaps can be minimised. Please, consider this
when preparing the tentative schedule of your workshop proposal.
The Organising Committee of FSCD will determine the final list of
accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop
Chairs and availability of space and facilities.
The organisers of satellite events are expected to create and
maintain a website for the event; handle paper selection, reviewing
and acceptance; draw up a tentative programme of talks; advertise
their event though specialist mailing lists; prepare the informal
pre-proceedings (if applicable) in a timely fashion; and arrange any
post-proceedings. Some amount of financial support may be offered to
workshops, depending on the number of participants.
The FSCD Organising Committee will handle promotion of the event on
the main conference website; integration of the event's programme
into the overall timetable; registration of participants; arrangement
of an appropriate virtual meeting room and technical support will be
provided by the FSCD organising committee.
IMPORTANT DATES
--------------------
Submission of workshop proposals: 6 December, 2020
Notification of success of proposals: 20 December, 2020
--------------------
Best regards,
Carlos Lopez Pombo, Mauricio Ayala-Rincon
FSCD 2021 Workshop Chairs
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23rd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages
COORDINATION 2021
14-18th of June, 2021 at the University of Malta, Valletta, Malta
https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination <https://www.discotec.org/2021/coordination>
COORDINATION 2021 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2021
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HIGHLIGHTS
Deadlines
January 29, 2021 — abstract submission
February 5, 2021 — paper submission
Keynote Speakers:
Gilles Fedak, iExec, FR
Mira Mezini, Technical University of Darmstadt, DE
Alexandra Silva, University College London, UK
Submission link
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021>
Types of contribution
Following the success of previous years, we welcome a range of
contributions other than regular full papers: survey papers,
short papers and tool papers.
Special topics
We plan to have dedicated sessions in the program on the following
three special topics (details below): Configurable Systems in the
DevOps Era, Microservices, and Techniques to reason about
interacting digital contracts.
SCOPE
Modern information systems rely increasingly on combining
concurrent, distributed, mobile, adaptive, reconfigurable and
heterogeneous components. New models, architectures, languages
and verification techniques are necessary to cope with the
complexity induced by the demands of today’s software development.
Coordination languages have emerged as a successful approach, in
that they provide abstractions that cleanly separate behaviour
from communication, therefore increasing modularity, simplifying
reasoning, and ultimately enhancing software development.
Building on the success of the previous editions, this conference
provides a well-established forum for the growing community of
researchers interested in models, languages, architectures, and
implementation techniques for coordination.
MAIN TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest encompass all areas of coordination, including
(but not limited to) coordination related aspects of:
- Theoretical models and foundations for coordination: component
composition, concurrency, mobility, dynamic, spatial and
probabilistic aspects of coordination, logic, emergent
behaviour, types, semantics;
- Specification, refinement, and analysis of architectures:
patterns and styles, verification of functional and
non-functional properties, including performance and security
aspects;
- Dynamic software architectures: distributed mobile code,
configuration, reconfiguration, networked computing, parallel,
high-performance and cloud computing;
- Nature- and bio-inspired approaches to coordination;
- Coordination of multiagent and collective systems: models,
languages, infrastructures, self-adaptation, self-organisation,
distributed solving, collective intelligence and emerging
behaviour;
- Coordination and modern distributed computing: web services,
peer-to-peer networks, grid computing, context-awareness,
ubiquitous computing, mobile computing;
- Coordination platforms for infrastructures of emerging new
application domains like IoT, fog- and edge-computing;
- Programming methodologies, languages, middleware, tools, and
environments for the development and verification of coordinated
applications;
- Tools, languages and methodologies for secure coordination;
- Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures:
programming in the large, domain-specific software architectures
and coordination models, case studies;
- Interdisciplinary aspects of coordination;
- Industry-led efforts in coordination and case studies.
SPECIAL TOPICS
COORDINATION 2021 is seeking contributions that enable the
cross-fertilisation with other research communities in computer
science or in other engineering or scientific disciplines.
Depending on the quality of the contributions, we plan to have
dedicated sessions in the program, possibly together with a panel
discussion.
1. Configurable Systems in the DevOps Era
Highly configurable software systems, such as software product
lines, call for automatic mechanisms that allow to tame the complexity
and variability. DevOps have pushed forward the importance of
automating every step of the software development process,
including the management of configurable systems.
In this special topic, we welcome submissions addressing novel
techniques and methodologies for the COORDINATION of automatic
configuration tasks or for the COORDINATION of the various
phases from development to deployment supporting the continuous
release of software/products.
Moreover, given the relevance of the topic to industry and aligned
with the main topics of COORDINATION, we encourage submissions
of efforts carried out in collaboration with industry, including case studies.
Contacts: Maurice ter Beek (maurice.terbeek(a)isti.cnr.it <mailto:maurice.terbeek@isti.cnr.it>) and
Hugo Torres Vieira (hugo.torres.vieira(a)ubi.pt <mailto:hugo.torres.vieira@ubi.pt>)
2. Microservices (in collaboration with the Microservices Community)
Microservices are a novel architectural style, taking to an extreme
the ideas of service-oriented computing. In microservices, applications
are composed by loosely coupled entities, the microservices.
Beyond that, single microservices should be small enough to be
easily managed, modified, and if needed removed and rewritten
from scratch. Microservices aim at obtaining high flexibility,
reconfigurability and scalability, thanks also to the exploitation of
containerization technologies such as Docker.
Given that microservice-based applications are composed of
many loosely-coupled microservices, techniques allowing one to
coordinate their execution in order to obtain the desired behaviour
are of paramount importance.
Contacts: Ivan Lanese (ivan.lanese(a)unibo.it <mailto:ivan.lanese@unibo.it>) and
Larisa Safina (larisa.safina(a)inria.fr <mailto:larisa.safina@inria.fr>)
3. Techniques to reason about interacting digital contracts
With the rise of blockchains and cryptocurrencies, digital contracts
have become popular in the form of smart contracts, which encode
a financial transaction between possibly distrusting parties using
a distributed consensus protocol. Although smart contracts bear
the potential to benefit society quite fundamentally (e.g., equalize
access to financial infrastructure, increase fairness), the benefits
are shadowed by the existence of severe security vulnerabilities
in deployed smart contracts and smart contract languages.
In the 2021 edition of COORDINATION, we are soliciting contributions
on new programming language paradigms and patterns for expressing
digital contract interactions, verification and analysis techniques
for checking safety and liveness properties and guaranteeing
correctness of digital contracts, as well as compositionality and scalability
of digital contract reasoning techniques.
Contacts: Stephanie Balzer (balzers(a)cs.cmu.edu <mailto:balzers@cs.cmu.edu>) and
Anastasia Mavridou (anastasia.mavridou(a)nasa.gov <mailto:anastasia.mavridou@nasa.gov>)
TOOL PAPERS
We welcome tool papers that describe experience reports,
technological artefacts and innovative prototypes (including engines,
APIs, etc.), for coordinating, modelling, analysing, simulating or testing
systems, as well as educational tools in the scope of the research
topics of COORDINATION.
In addition, we welcome submissions promoting the integration of
existing tools relevant to the community.
Submissions to the tool track must include an extended abstract and
a link to a demo video that previews the potential tool presentation
at the conference. Both the abstract and the video will be decisive
criteria in the selection process. Authors of accepted contributions
will be asked to produce a regular (full) paper to appear in the conference
proceedings, which will be subject to a lightweight revision process.
Interested authors can contact the tool track chairs:
Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito(a)unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito@unito.it>) and
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa(a)ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa@ifi.uio.no>) for details.
SUBMISSIONS
Important Dates
January 29, 2021 — abstract submission
February 5, 2021 — paper submission
April 2, 2021 — notification
April 23, 2021 — camera ready
PUBLICATION
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF using a
two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information
and abstract must be completed according to the DisCoTec submission dates.
Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management
system, accessible from the conference web site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2021>
Contributions must be written in English and report on original,
unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere
(cf. IFIP’s Author Code of Conduct,
see http://www.ifip.org/ <http://www.ifip.org/> under Publications/Links).
The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit
(see below) prepared using Springer’s LNCS style.
Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may
be rejected without review.
Submission categories
- Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references): describing
thorough and complete research results and experience reports.
- Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing
research in progress or opinion papers on the past of
Coordination research, on the current state of the art, or on
prospects for the years to come.
- Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references): describing
important results and successful stories that originated in the
context of COORDINATION.
- Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references): describing
technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of
COORDINATION. The paper must contain a link to a publicly
downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes length.
The authors of accepted papers (in any submission category) will be
encouraged to make their artefacts publicly available using permanent
repositories such as Zenodo etc. (for Tool papers, the tool should already
be available at submission time for reviewing purposes,
but not necessarily via a permanent archive with a DOI).
The conference proceedings, formed by accepted submissions will be
published by Springer in the LNCS Series.
Special Issues
Following the tradition of previous editions of COORDINATION,
according to the quality and number of the submission, we will organise
special issues of extended and selected Full/Short/Survey/Tool papers
in reputable journals such as LMCS (Logical Methods in Computer Science)
and SCP (Science of Computer Programming).
Special issues for last year’s edition are under preparation and we will
advertise them on the conference’s website as soon as they get published.
COMMITTEES
Program committee chairs
Ferruccio Damiani (ferruccio.damiani(a)unito.it <mailto:ferruccio.damiani@unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy)
Ornela Dardha (ornela.dardha(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:ornela.dardha@glasgow.ac.uk>) (University of Glasgow, UK)
Tool track chairs
Giorgio Audrito (giorgio.audrito(a)unito.it <mailto:giorgio.audrito@unito.it>) (University of Turin, Italy)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (sltarifa(a)ifi.uio.no <mailto:sltarifa@ifi.uio.no>) (University of Oslo, Norway)
Program committee
Zena M. Ariola (University of Oregon, USA)
Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Giorgio Audrito (University of Turin, Italy)
Stephanie Balzer (CMU, USA)
Maurice H. ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Roberto Casadei (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Fatemeh Ghassemi (University of Tehran, Iran)
Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Omar Inverso (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium)
Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, Italy)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark)
Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
Mieke Massink (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Larisa Safina (Inria - Lille Nord Europe, France)
Gwen Salaün (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway)
Peter Thieman (Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Tarmo Uustalu (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Steering committee
Gul Agha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Wolfgang De Meuter (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
Rocco De Nicola, IMT (School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Tom Holvoet (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Jean-Marie Jacquet (University of Namur, Belgium)
Christine Julien (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Eva Kühn (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy)
Mieke Massink (ISTI CNR, Italy) - Chair)
José Proença (CISTER, ISEP, Portugal)
Rosario Pugliese (Università di Firenze, Italy)
Hanne Riis Nielson (DTU, Denmark)
Marjan Sirjani (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Carolyn Talcott (SRI International, California, USA)
Emilio Tuosto (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Vasco T. Vasconcelos (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Mirko Viroli (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
Gianluigi Zavattaro (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy)
* PhD researcher position (f/m/d) *
At the University of Bremen in the department of mathematics and
informatics there is a full-time PhD position available (under the
condition of job release), commencing at the earliest convenience.
The position is at the level of
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (f/m/d)
Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L within the group "databases" headed by Prof.
Sebastian Maneth.
* Job description *
The position is for a duration 3 years. This position is research only
(= no teaching obligations) within a project that is funded by the DFG.
The topic of the project is "definability of tree transformations".
The time limitation is based on § 2 (1) WissZeitVG
(Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, i.e. temporary science employment
act). Therefore, candidates may only be considered who dispose of the
respective scope of qualification periods according to § 2 (1) WissZeitVG.
Example questions addressed by the project are:
- Given a functional bottom-up tree transducer, is it decidable
whether or not its translation can be realized by a deterministic
top-down tree transducer?
- Given an attributed tree transducer, is it decidable whether or
not it is equivalent to a deterministic top-down tree transducer?
These questions are difficult and open research problems.
* Requirements *
We are looking for a doctoral researcher (f/m/d) with a completed
master’s degree and an excellent track record in automata theory or
formal language theory and with the will and enthusiasm to crack these
hard problems.
* General hints *
We specifically support the employment of women and encourage qualified
female researchers to apply. In case of equal personal aptitudes and
qualification, disabled persons will be given priority. Applicants with
a migration background are welcome.
Applications (consisting of a cover letter stating the name of a referee
who is willing to write a letter of recommendation, your CV, your
motivation to work in this area, your master's thesis, copies of
transcripts showing your courses and grades) have to be submitted by
December 22th, 2020, quoting the reference number A242/20, to
Universitaet Bremen
Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Maneth
Bibliothekstrasse 1
28359 Bremen
GERMANY
or in electronic form (one PDF file) to maneth(a)uni-bremen.de
For further questions please contact Prof. Dr. Maneth, using the above
mentioned e-mail address.
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-v…
The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering up to 17 studentships to support PhD research for students starting in 2021. Funding is available to support tuition fees for both home and international students, and in most cases to support living expenses at the recommended UKRI rate (currently £15,285 per annum) in addition.
Whilst the above funding is open to students in all areas of computing science, applications in the area of programming languages are welcomed. Available supervisors in this area at the School include (check the PL theme website https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/pl-theme/ <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/pl-theme/> for further details)
* Dr Ornela Dardha (programming language foundations, logic, session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email ornela.dardha(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:ornela.dardha@glasgow.ac.uk>
* Prof Simon Gay (programming language theory, verification techniques based on session types for concurrent/distributed systems), email simon.gay(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:simon.gay@glasgow.ac.uk>
* Dr Jeremy Singer (compilers, cloud, managed run-times, parallelism, resource management), email Jeremy.singer(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:Jeremy.singer@glasgow.ac.uk>
* Prof Phil Trinder (programming languages, functional programming, parallel/distributed systems), email phil.trinder(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:phil.trinder@glasgow.ac.uk>
* Prof Wim Vanderbauwhede (programming languages, compilation, heterogeneous & FPGA computing), email wim.vanderbauwhede(a)glasgow.ac.uk <mailto:wim.vanderbauwhede@glasgow.ac.uk>
Students can apply for admission to PhD study at any time, but to be considered for the studentships we are offering at this round, we must receive your application by 31 January 2021. For more information about how to apply, see https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…>. This web page includes information about the research proposal, which is required as part of your application.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact a potential supervisor and discuss an application before the submission deadline. See https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…> and https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu… <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/postgraduateresearch/prospectivestu…> for more details about the funding available.
Information session: we will be running an information session for potential applicants on Friday 11 December from 1100-1200 GMT. The session is intended to give you an insight into the research currently undertaken in the School of Computing Science, scholarships and other sources of funding available, and how to make your application. The event will take place via Zoom; to obtain a link, you must sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgr-information-session-tickets-129903562051 <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgr-information-session-tickets-129903562051>.
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The School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney is searching for full-time faculty members at all ranks.
Advert: https://tinyurl.com/y4djckaq
Closing date: 11:30pm, Monday 30 November 2020 (Sydney Time)
Although the advert mentions specific areas of interest, exceptional candidates in all areas are sought. Informal enquiries are welcome, and can be made to Sasha Rubin (sasha.rubin(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:sasha.rubin@sydney.edu.au>)
Finite model theorists may be interested in the online CSL conference,
which takes place from Jan 25-28 2021
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The European Association for Computer Science Logic invites
you to participate in the 2021 edition of CSL, which will be held online
from Mon Jan 25 to Thu Jan 28, 2021, organised by the Faculty of
Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana
# The Conference
Computer Science Logic (CSL) is the annual conference of the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). It is an
interdisciplinary conference spanning both basic and
application-oriented research in mathematical logic and computer
science. CSL 2021 will be the 29th edition in the series. CSL moved away
from its former August/September slot in 2020. CSL 2021 is the second
conference in the series that takes place in January.
## Invited Speakers
- Assia Mahboubi, INRIA, Rennes, France
- Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, UK
- Linda Westrick, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
- Sylvain Schmitz, Université de Paris, Paris, France
- Bartek Klin, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warsawa, Poland
## Programme
Thirty-four contributed papers have been selected for presentation at
CSL 2021; see the
[list of accepted papers](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si/accepted-papers/)
## Registration
To register, please follow the link and information provided on the
[CSL website](https://csl2021.fmf.uni-lj.si)
The registration deadlines are:
- *14th December 2020*: deadline for speaker registration. At least one
author of every contributed paper must register as a speaker.
- *11th January 2021*: deadline for non-speaker registration. All
participants must register. Note that student non-speaker registration
is free of charge.
If you have any questions, please contact the local organisers
<csl2021(a)fmf.uni-lj.si>.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth International Conference on
Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)
July 17 - July 24, 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina
https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/
In-cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN
NOTE: Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and its satellite workshops will be held online.
IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not be considered.
Abstract: February 12, 2021
Submission: February 15, 2021
Rebuttal: April 2-5, 2021
Notification: April 19, 2021
Final version: May 3, 2021
FSCD (http://fscd-conference.org/) covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and deduction from theoretical foundations to applications. Building on two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA (Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics, models of computation, semantics and verification in new challenging areas.
The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is:
1. Calculi:
- Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, infinitary, etc.);
- Lambda calculus;
- Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, constructive, etc.);
- Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.);
- Type theory and logical frameworks;
- Homotopy type theory;
- Quantum calculi.
2. Methods in Computation and Deduction:
- Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, etc.);
- Induction, coinduction;
- Matching, unification, completion, orderings;
- Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.);
- Tree automata;
- Model building and model checking;
- Proof search and theorem proving;
- Constraint solving and decision procedures.
3. Semantics:
- Operational semantics and abstract machines;
- Game Semantics and applications;
- Domain theory and categorical models;
- Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.);
- Quantum computation and emerging models in computation.
4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems:
- Type Inference and type checking;
- Abstract Interpretation;
- Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity;
- Checking termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related properties;
- Symbolic computation.
5. Tools and Applications:
- Programming and proof environments;
- Verification tools;
- Proof assistants and interactive theorem provers;
- Applications in industry;
- Applications of formal systems in other sciences.
6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas:
- Certification;
- Security;
- Blockchain protocols;
- Data Bases;
- Deep learning and machine learning algorithms;
- Planning.
PUBLICATION
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The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access.
SPECIAL ISSUE
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The submission site is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021
Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They must present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages (including references) and must present new software tools in which FSCD topics play an important role, or significantly new versions of such tools. An archive of the code with instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be provided. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the conference web site:
https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/
One author of an accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference
BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
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The program committee will select a paper in which at least one author is a junior researcher, i.e. either a student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the first day of the meeting. Other authors should declare to the PC Chair that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior researcher(s).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo
fscd2021(a)easychair.org
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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M. Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília
S. Berardi, University of Torino
F. Blanqui, INRIA
E. Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology
É. Contejean, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
T. Coquand, University of Gothenburg
T. Ehrhard, Université de Paris, CNRS
S. Escobar, Univ. Politècnica de València
J. Espírito Santo, University of Minho
C. Faggian, Université de Paris, CNRS
A. Felty, University of Ottawa
S. Figueira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
M. Fiore, University of Cambridge
M. Gaboardi, Boston University
S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
I. Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics
D. Kesner, Université de Paris
R. Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen
T. Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University Linz
B. König, University of Duisburg-Essen
M. Lenisa, University of Udine
N. Nishida, Nagoya University
L. Ong, University of Oxford
P. Parys, University of Warsaw
J. Rehof, TU Dortmund University
C. Rocha, Pontificia Univ. Javeriana Cali
A. Silva, University College London
N. Szasz, Universidad ORT Uruguay
A. Tiu, Australian National University
S. Winkler, University of Verona
H. Yang, KAIST, South Korea
CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes Univ. & ICC/CONICET
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília
Carlos López Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR
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Jamie Vicary, Oxford University
PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE
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Z. Ariola, University of Oregon
M. Ayala-Rincón, University of Brasilia
C. Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
H. Geuvers, Radboud University
S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13
D. Kesner (Chair), University of Paris Diderot
H. Kirchner, Inria
C. Kop, Radboud University
D. Mazza, University of Paris 13
L. Ong, Oxford University
J. Rehof, TU Dortmund
J. Vicary, Oxford University